Transformers Prime – A New Life

Chapter 5: Rescue Operation

Back on the ship, MJ and Petey were taken to a room on the ship filled with what looked like medical looking tools and equipment, and a table of some kind in the middle. Also, in the room was a tall red and white colored robot with a thin horn on top of his head and tires mounted on his back holding some kind of pad device, tapping and swiping on it like a computer tablet of some kind.

The robots escorting MJ then came to a stop after walking in the doorway. "Knockout," the robot carrying MJ announced, which prompted the red robot, who apparently was called Knockout, to look up from what he was doing, "Lord Megatron has requested that you begin running your tests," he finished as he showed MJ and Petey in his hand.

Knockout gave a wickedly sly grin as he put his pad away, and walked towards the other two robots, looking at MJ and Petey as they both cowered in fear. "Not to worry, trooper," Knockout replied as he took MJ and Petey from the other robot and brought them up close to his face, "I'll get right to work," he said with a small chuckle.

The two robots then exited the room and the door shut behind them. Knockout turned around and proceeded towards the table in the middle of the room. Once he reached the table MJ noticed what looked like a keypad of some sort. Knockout then tapped a few keys on the pad and the table lit up and displayed various lines, windows with odd text, and other shape outlines, like something one would typically see on a computer screen.

"Now," Knockout began as he looked at MJ with a sadistic smile, "here's where the fun can begin," he chuckled again as he then carefully reached for and grabbed Petey with his fingers.

"NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" MJ shouted as she tried to hold onto her baby, only for Knockout to just rip him out of her grasp and place him on the table.

"Relax, Human," Knockout said a second later after bringing MJ up to his eye level again, "I just need to run a couple of quick scans and… other tests," he said with an unnerving edge.

MJ's heart came to a virtually complete stop upon hearing this.

A second later Knockout walked over to a row of cylindrical glass containers, took the lid of one of them and dropped MJ into it. "Don't worry," he said as he resealed the container "it'll be quick and painless… for me at least," he sniggered.

Before he could do anything else, both Knockout and MJ heard the unmistakable sound of crying. MJ couldn't stand it… Petey was all alone and crying for her, and she couldn't get to him to try and calm him down. But while MJ was feeling despair, Knockout was just fuming with irritation at the noise the little human was making.

"OH, FOR SCRAPS SAKE!" Knockout shouted as he turned around and walked back to the table covering his audio receptors, "How can something so small, MAKE SO MUCH NOISE?!"

All MJ could do was stare and listen as her poor little baby cried, probably terrified out of his mind with a giant robot hanging over him getting ready to do who knows what. And to make matters worse, she didn't know what to do. About a million things were going through her mind at once. Finally, she got a definite idea and began to feel around in her pockets before pulling out a pair of metallic watch-like devices. Before his last night, Peter had given MJ a pair of his old web-shooters as well as the chemical formula for his web fluid to refill them. He said that while he would always try to do his best to be there for her, he knew deep down that there would be times when he couldn't, so he wanted to make sure that she could take care of herself if she was ever in any danger. It was probably one of the sweetest things Peter had ever done for her, and wherever he was right then, MJ silently thanked him. She may not have been able to save Peter, but she was fiercely determined to not lose his and her son.

"Hang on Sweetie," MJ quietly said to Petey as she attached the web-shooters to her wrists, "Mommy's coming."

Once both of the devices were safely fastened, MJ spun a glob of webbing which, after about a minute or two, she made into a sling for carrying Petey and put around her shoulder. She then began to bang her fists, then her side against the cylinder trying to move it forward towards the edge of the shelf. Finally, after about a minute, she moved it just enough so that with one more hit, the container tipped forward and fell right off the shelf and onto the floor where it shattered open.

Just as Knockout turned to find out what caused the noise, he was met with a glob of webbing in his eyes causing him to stumble back. "GAH! MY OPTICS!" he screamed as he tried to pull the material out of his eyes.

MJ then ran toward the table and fired a web line to the edge and began climbing up. Once she reached the top of the table she rushed toward Petey, who thankfully was unharmed, picked him up and tried to calm him down. Just as he finally stopped crying, MJ put him into the web sling, then went back to the web line, gripped it tightly and slid back down to the floor. Once there, she quickly looked to see Knockout still struggling with the webbing in his eyes and bolted for the door.

Finally, after a few minutes of struggling, Knockout finally managed to pull the gunk out of his eyes. He then heard the sound of the lab door opening then looked to see it close and realized that MJ had escaped him. He gave a frustrated growl then tapped the side of his head.

"Lord Megatron," Knockout stated with an urgent tone, "the humans have escaped!


On the bridge, Megatron turned towards a the vehicon troopers who were manning the computers with a furious air. "Inform all personnel to lock down the ship and find them… IMMEDIATELY!" he roared to his subordinates.

At the command of their master, the troopers frantically began typing into the computers while an alarm stated to blare throughout the ship.


Meanwhile, a bright green ground bridge vortex materialized in the middle of one of the ship's corridors and out came Optimus, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead, all with their weapons drawn and at the ready. After taking a moment to notice that there were no Decepticons in the immediate area, the team noticed that the alarm was going off, and prompted Bumblebee to whirr something.

"Let's hope that what it is Bee," Arcee replied pulling in her blasters.

Bulkhead took a quick look around before looking back to the others. "If they are loose on this thing like Bee said, the best chance we've got at finding 'em before the cons do is splitting up."

Optimus nodded to the Wrecker. "I agree," he said before addressing the team, "Autobots, split up, and if you find Mary Jane and her son, contact me and return here immediately."

With that, Team Prime dispersed throughout the Nemesis to find MJ and Petey.


MJ was trying her best to stay out of the robot's sights as they rushed all around the corridors of the ship. Thankfully she was successful thus far, but what really vexed her was that she didn't know where all these halls lead to. Everywhere she turned was either a dead end or lead her somewhere that looked exactly the same as where she was just a minute ago.

"There's gotta be some way out of here," she said to herself.

A minute later, after narrowly evading another squad of robots, MJ stopped to catch her breath. However, the next thing she knew she heard a noise that she recognized from earlier. Thinking quickly, she filled her hands with some webbing and used it to quickly and quietly climb up the wall and onto the ceiling where she hung, hidden in the shadows. Seconds later, Megatron came forward, but instead of him continuing forward like MJ had hoped he would, he glanced down the left and right sides of the corridor as if he could sense something.

He then turned left and started walking down the same hallway where MJ was trying to hide. Thankfully he passed her, but she somehow got the feeling that sooner or later he would find her. Knowing she had to come up with something to at least distract him, MJ observed her surroundings until her eyes settled on her hands coated in the webbing, and she smiled as an idea formed in her head.

MJ then carefully pried her right hand loose from the wall and cupped it to her mouth. "HEY UGLY!" she shouted towards Megatron.

Upon hearing the insult, Megatron immediately looked back and up only to receive a face full of webbing. "GAH!" the Decepticon leader shouted as he stumbled back and tried to pull the webbing out of his eyes.

Seeing her opportunity, MJ spun a web line and used it to slide down from the ceiling and then sneak off. Seconds later, Megatron tore the webbing off of his face with a growl and took off down the corridor hoping to find and catch that human to make her pay for what she did.

Thankfully, MJ thought ahead and concealed herself in another shadowy area in the hallway, from where she watched as Megatron ran right past her and down another hallway. Just when she thought the coast was clear, MJ slipped out of the shadows, turned around and ran while looking back to make sure she wasn't being followed, only to then bump into something along the way and fall to the floor. At first, she was afraid that she had run into one of the robot troopers, but after opening her eyes she found that it was actually the yellow robot who had tried to help her earlier.

Upon seeing MJ, the yellow robot made gave a series of beeps and a whir that somehow made it seem like he was happy. He then got down on one knee, transformed into his car mode and opened his passenger door. Figuring that he somehow knew the way to get out of wherever she was, MJ climbed in, strapped herself in, and held tightly onto Petey as the car sped away.


Meanwhile, Optimus was firing at a small squad of Vehicon troopers who had spotted him, when he heard a series of beeps through his commlink, prompting him to retract one of his guns back, and tap the side of his helmet to reply to Bumble Bee.

"Understood," he said before blasting the last trooper and transforming into his truck mode and speeding away, "Autobots, the girl has been found. Return to the rendezvous and prepare to ground bridge."


A minute later Megatron walked by the spot where Optimus fled and stopped upon finding the remains of his troops. As he kneeled down and began to inspect the damage, he heard a groaning noise and turned to see that one of the troops was still alive. Hopefully, he could tell him just what had happened.

"Report," the Decepticon leader demanded.

The trooper attempted to lift himself up but found it useless. "Op- Optim-" he started to say before crashing back down on the floor, dead.

Megatron simply snarled in response to what the trooper had been trying to say: Optimus Prime, his greatest enemy, was aboard the nemesis. No doubt he and his team were searching for the girl and the infant. He then shot back up and tapped the side of his helmet activating his commlink.

"Attention all hands," he announced, "destroy the Autobots on sight and retrieve the infant alive at all costs!"


Meanwhile, MJ got a small surprise when the yellow car that was transporting her was joined by a dark green SUV, a red and blue semi-truck, and what looked like Jack's motorcycle, all of which were driving themselves. She didn't know what was going on, but she hoped that someone would explain it real fast and real soon. Whatever the case, it looked as though they were trying to help so for the moment she decided not to question it.

"Attack!" came a voice from behind.

MJ looked back to find several of the robots running behind the vehicles and extending what looked like laser guns out of their arms. MJ couldn't help but scream as they just started firing. Thankfully with some quick maneuvering, all the cars managed to dodge the blasts, allowing MJ to breathe a sigh of relief. Then much to her surprise, another green vortex appeared. No telling where this one went, but anything was better than being stuck here, so she wasn't going to complain.

"NO!" came another, all too familiar voice.

Megatron came charging right at the vehicles, striking aside any other robot who got in his way. Once he was clear he raised his right arm and fired several shots, which thankfully all missed, but barely. Just as the vehicles started to enter the vortex, he readied his cannon and aimed directly at the yellow muscle car. Just as he fired the shot, the yellow car entered the vortex, prompting Megatron to run even faster and enter it before it closed. Unfortunately for him, however, just before he could get his hand in the vortex slammed shut and he fell to the floor and skidded to a stop. After taking a second to pick himself up, Megatron clenched his fist, and his teeth, before letting out a deafening outraged roar.


Coming out the other end of the vortex, MJ sighed couldn't help but feel relieved, if a little nauseous as well from all the movement and the huge rush from the vortex. After a second the muscle cars door opened up to let her out and allow her to catch her breath. Then much to her surprise, she found Miko, Jack, and Raff all coming towards her. But what probably surprised her most of all was the big red and white robot standing at what looked like some kind of control panel.

"Are you okay, MJ?" Miko asked when she stopped.

"I'm fine, Miko," MJ responded before looking to Petey in the sling, who was amazingly sound asleep, "And so it Petey."

"Wow, babies really can sleep through just about anything," Jack said while taking a look for himself.

MJ couldn't help but smile at Jacks comment. Then much to her surprise, the muscle car transformed back into a robot followed by Jacks motorcycle which turned into a more female looking robot, while the SUV turned into one that was bigger and evidentially more muscular. Finally, the semi-truck transformed into a tall red robot with a blue helmet decorated with special fins. MJ took a step back in awe. Never in her life did she think anything like this could be possible, and to make things even more amazing, her new friends all seemed to know about it.

Raf rubbed the back of his head before looking directly at MJ with an embarrassed kind of face. "We've got a little explaining to do," he admitted.

MJ shrugged a bit, then fired two web lines at the ceiling and tied the ends together into a swing which she then sat on, much to the surprise to everyone present. "Yeah, I kinda do too," she said with a smile.


Back on the Nemesis, the Decepticons were recuperating from the experience. On the bridge, Knockout was brought before Megatron, who was still fuming about how the girl and the infant managed to escape.

"Knockout," Megatron addressed the medical officer, "explain to me how it is that you could not hold on, TO A HUMAN INFANT!"

"Lord Megatron," Knockout pleaded, "please let me explain i-it wasn't my fault. The child's mother, she…"

"SILENCE!" the muscular behemoth shouted, "I didn't think it possible, but it would appear that there actually is someone more incompetent than Starscream… YOU!"

"Master please," the self-conscious medic said as he got down to his knees and placed his hands together in a begging manner before his leader, "I was foolish this time, but I won't let it happen again."

Megatron took another intimidating step forward which terrified Knockout even more. "You had better not, Knockout. Because if you do let it happen again, then the punishment which you're about to endure will seem like a welcome pleasure."

Before Knockout could respond, Megatron grabbed him by the face and began to drag him towards the doorway.

"Lord Megatron, please," Knockout begged, "No. Please, can't you reconsider?" he futilely tried to reason. "No… no… NNNOOOOOO!"

The doorway closed just as Megatron pulled him through, leaving the present crew to only speculate what their leader was going to do to poor Knockout.

A/N: And… there. Finally got the next chapter done. Thanks for being so patient everyone, and I'll be working on the next one and do my best to get it up soon. I own no franchises.